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Now the new addition it's really a beautiful addition, compassionate father consuming far engaging the God of the Old Testament originally wrote this book is my very first in 1985 it's been out of circulation for many many years.

So what we decided to do is do an update.

Update the book because it is so practical. It is so relevant to so many issues that that believers are dealing with today, and questions about the God of the Old Testament, the goodness of the God of the Old Testament so it's beautifully produced. It's a new addition it's this beautiful table coffee table hardcover edition.

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So go ask Dr. Brown.org you'll see the information right on the homepage and then when you do you get a numbered sign copy succumb collectors edition. From the first printing, along with a link to a special teaching. I did that gives the history of the book gets into further information about each chapter, so you'll find it really, really enlightening, eye-opening and up to it literally right just walked out right before the show as the truck arrived with books and just grabbed a copy so I can hold my hands and hold it up for you okay we go to the phones starting with Sam in Idaho. What's the the pronunciation of your city. I didn't want to butcher it or delaying Coeur d'Alene okay got it. Yes what go ahead thank you Ogden. I met you the first time over the Brownsville revival so it's been a long time, but thank you so much for taking my call. My question is I know sometimes you can interpret the Scriptures literally, or allegorical. There's out allegorically. You can look at things and I was reading were actually heard of teaching three weeks ago that was going off of revelations and the four horns and in the pastorate said that the United States, Russia, UN and NATO are the four horns will my question is if that is the case. Do we take the Scriptures that says flee Babylon is that is that literal and the angel that throws the stone down to Babylon. Is that literal. I'm super confusing.

I was hoping that you can enlighten me write the confusion comes from the pastor that's in the Scripture, and otherwise ask yourself this question. Let's say you live 1900 years ago a little over that when when revelation was first written.

You were one of the first believers to receive it. Also in one of the seven cities in Asia minor where where revelation was addressed in in the early early chapters. The seven interrogations in Asia minor.

Each addressed so let's say you are one of the believers hearing revelation read in your house church meeting.

Just think it should have some relevance for you. You okay is it is written for you right here. The first readers in this special blessing so if it's time I United States and Russia and China. Whatever the or the Vatican or whatever that none of which existed then it would have no relevance whatsoever, so there must've been some meaning that revelation is full of symbolism, revelations, full of mystery and imagery. That's called apocalyptic so you describe things in visionary form you describe things as if everything is the end of the world, etc. this is it's it's normal imagery. So when you'd be reading about the beast, and so on.

You certainly be thinking about Nero type figure is Caesar or of the Roman Emperor was persecuting the church at that time. If you didn't have freedom to do your work as a Christian you know that would you would be under that system of the beast or the Antichrist. Even though there's a final application of the book that the point is spiritual imagery like this can be applied in many many different ways. It had to have relevance for the first readers and then every generation reading along the way and then the last readers in the last generation as Jesus comes and we see that the end of of the book of Revelation, the establishing of God's eternal kingdom and things like that so it if the pastor wanted to read it rightly, he could say today, we could make application and say that the the four world powers are thus and such and it could be interpreted in that way. Just like when you're reading first Corinthians in Paul's dealing with issues in the church then and specific people that were divisive. Now how do we apply that to us today or or for example, cultivated is not one of the plagues of the book Revelation, the vaccine is not the mark of the beast you can say, isn't it interesting that a day will come when you can't buy or sell look in this market and now were being told you can't do certain things that I think is an interesting how these things can happen and be a foreshadowing so it's it's just a matter of giving right interpretation to something Susan okay. Practically speaking, what is it mean flee Babylon. It absolutely does not mean flee the United States or flee Russia or flee China or flee. Whatever it is it means flee from the sins of the world flee from the control of the world system and the pollution of the world system so were ever you live in whatever country live fleeing Babylon means fleeing from the sins of the pollution of the world so it could be it could be like and are they raising our kids that having a TV in the house because we didn't want to be polluted advocates, but we had weird screens you could watch videos on, but we didn't have TB. We chose to do without, or someone has an Internet filter so that they don't partake of certain things and make sure that certain junk can come in their home. There many ways we can flee Babylon, but to apply the literal way is absolutely not what's being spoken of here and again were not even at that moment where is the final judgment on Babylon. So let's make spiritual application and then certain things as they fall into place and have more universal application.

At the end of the age, then let it be that helpful manner is really helpful. I really appreciate your keep me and my family in your prayers and I really thank you for your time. I you bet and you're not the only one to ask a question like that for sure 866-34-TRUTH Grace to you and your family. By the way ultimately start our broadcaster Q&A broadcast before I'm on the air.

Every line is filled and sometimes we have some openings. We have some openings if you been trying to call and get through this is a great time to call 866-34-TRUTH 87884 a, let's go to Troy in Louisville, Kentucky. Welcome to the line of fire by Dr. Rabbi Kirk and me on. My question is more arduous related sure. Over the past three years of your material help me tremendously with Jewish evangelism and apologetics. But, more practical question I have for you today and in my city Volvo. I've tried to reach out to the Jewish community in different ways. On some of things are done. It you try to befriend some of the some people like on on social media and then also been into a couple light toward studies and just kind of let stand in the note truck ask a question and just meet the Rabbi then and fill up, try to do those things. But, haven't you know like been able to really you don't get much traction I'm out. I also met with the messianic Rabbi over congregation. Your mobile and distraught to strategize with them but I just haven't got much traction is always one ask you liking your experience, what would be some some practical sort of things I could do to the to better reach and engage the Jewish community of of my city yeah will appreciate your vision and burden to do that in and wanted to be scriptural to the Jew first so the first thing you do is pray pray thee, and open hearts goblet open minds. So pray that general prayer for the Jewish community in Louisville that's that. The first thing. And of course you recognize that you have religious views and you have nominal Jews you have atheistic genes that you got a wide range in every every person is different. The default would be will be up leaving Jesus when not buying what you're selling, but that's just the generalization. So we pray first for God to open hearts and minds. The second thing is, I would pray for divine appointments. In other words, I would ask the Lord to bring someone in my path. I was was flying back from Phoenix the other day and on the way getting on the plane I said Lord, would you bring someone I pass today that's open. That's hungry now. It did, it didn't happen that that he did but when I sat down there was some guys on the plane and asked if they could switch seats with a woman seat front.

She didn't mind so she switch that I thought okay that gets my attention because as I've had it happen when someone switch seats and it's a divine appointment I remember was long after talking to guy he's there weeping and wanted to get right with God. It was just was amazing.

So I thought what even though I'd rather just right and rest now. I will be conscientious so I said hey listen, getting on the plane I prayed that God would give me opportunity to speak with someone that was spiritually searching us if you have any spiritual question of any kind. You just asked me she is okay. I'm good with thanks that's far as it went, but you never know and NML get your attention up out of the blue, you meet someone you start talking to Jewish maybe on the spiritual sorts of number one pray in general for the opening of eyes number two. Pray for divine appointments because otherwise it's pictured the Rabbi going to talk to the pastor of your church and say I like to tell you why you shouldn't believe in Jesus of his neck and have a lot of success if you go to Torah study or something like that make you clear hey I'm a Christian I'm not here to proselytize, but I just want to understand your perspective and in bed and then if they open the door to talk of some great but otherwise learn what you can and then lastly get a practical book, Troy. There's one called you bring the bagels all bring the gospel by Barry Rubin's been out for many years, but it's a practical book. Are you be IN you bring the bagels all bring the gospel and this just gives different principles sharing the gospel with Jewish people. Obviously, the history of anti-Semitism in the church is driven many Jewish people away. So if you're just a Christian that most Jewish people as Israel doesn't have an agenda that that will help build bridges so hopefully those different ways, bring some across your path is open, interested and will be frustrated many times it takes many many years to see someone from faith with the Lord is at work. Douglas will bring back her plan by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown for joining us on the line of fire heard to those who differ with me word to those who think my beliefs are wrong or heretical or crazy leaving the Bible or God or religious person but just have different viewpoints discrete time to tell me why this tell me to tell all the listeners and viewers. Why is me opportunity to interact with the you say Dr. Brown I know you often do that and give people an opportunity call. How come you don't take their calls because they don't call. I would gladly take calls from those who differ with me, virtually 24 seven. I delight in speaking with those who differ, especially those who have strong challenges. Fortunately, very difficult to get people to call you it's one thing when they bash online insults in the line at all, that whatever it's their life. They do with the give account to God's feel bad for them, but this one thing you could do that, left and right say want lunch call once government believing that a live shows and ever watching, which is every day were watching YouTube chat people attacking a blast missing hey songs on YouTube call love to talk to zoo silence. So if you wonder why don't take more of the attacking calls it's because the attackers don't call, but if you'd like to use less insulting you called an attack okay with you differently think I'm wrong is open 866-34-TRUTH house that I let's go to Stephen and Tampa Florida. Welcome to line of fire documenting predicament call sure your question more and more of a personal question but I want to get more of a biblical and I know I've been practicing solitude more in my life recently and actually bought a path to my local zoo and I want to look at nature and just kinda take pictures of the hobby and I can be God through that, another with taken pictures recently reminded me of Rome in one verse 20 but then I thought to myself the question, why how come we can connect with God through nature and almost the spiritual spent that I don't really know for myself, it just kind of is. And I feel God speaking to me and I see it.

Many quality through nature that we offer and I kinda wanted to get your perspective on how nature also resembles.qualities right so close, not writing there about every creature on the planet necessarily brings glory to God or for example, how does a rattlesnake in glory to God or how does a sleeve bring glory to God.

That's that's on this point.

He sees talking more about creation itself so that the heavens and the earth. The good, the display of God in nature itself evident that there's something more itself evident that these things did not create themselves.

And that's why people around the world through the centuries have believed in a deity or deities because it's clear there's something more out there and beyond them now. You can also learn aspects of God and this is in the end of Job in the divine speeches through some of his creation. His his creatures. The diversity, the wonder you know you you here is this fish that swims 4000 feet euros 5000 feet in the bottom of the sea is never been seen before in its lives in complete darkness in or to the human eye, and then they get these lights out of that. It's got all these amazing colors like lamps is like Chris had come from, so that there aspects of wow diversity. The beauty, the, the, the wonder of how God makes things that the difference is part of diversity so it's it's not for for many for many people it's not so much. You connect with God through creation, but you learn about God and and that's what he says in Job you learn about me through creation through the wonder of it in the all of it in the diversity of it so it's not everyone does that, but it is something that can be easily done now. On the flipside, when you realize as I understand it, that a worm is more complex than, say, an iPhone, and no one would question for a split second that an iPhone was manufactured intelligently and worm is one of the most primitive simple forms of life on the earth.

How much more evidence is there human DNA and the creation so those those are some thoughts. Stephen and me your pictures that only bless you with bless others as well. Hey, I appreciate the call 86634.

Let's go over to William and Delaware. Thanks for: the line of fire. God bless you all and Dr. Brown.

I like you a lot and I love you and I appreciate your lot challenge you why don't you just come out and say that you can't be a Christian and boat Democrat, hoping that would help a lot and ending challenge people to think about that and go some change in know I'm leaving it to think you can be a Christian as a Republican question hide him. I vote Republican because of evil on the faith of the Republican none on the thing… If you want whatever you want can be a Democrat of your Christian right so more and right right so so William I I cannot fathom personally how someone can love Jesus love the word of God's principles." Democrat. However, I don't doubt that there are Christians who vote Democrat so I I actually wrote a chapter in a book, a conservative book about why some Christians vote Democrat and and I spoke with believers who explained to me some of the reasons for going Democrat I don't agree with it but I can't. I can't make the statement that you're asking me to make another was it it it goes beyond what I feel comfortable before the Lord, or to say, hate the Bible gives me this is a litmus test, but I do appreciate your answer out Republicans.

In other words, in other words, we recognize were dealing with the fallen system and fallen people so so here's here's what some have told me okay. For example, this is book you had Ronald Reagan for eight years George W. Bush for four years George W. Bush for eight years come for four years and we still have abortion on demand during those 24 years of Republican presidents pro-life presidents.

We boarded over 21 million babies so they said is that doesn't matter who they've now again I differ I differ, but they said to me that this matter however they vote doesn't seem to change abortion sets can be changed on the ground etc. as for homosexual activism, things like that again. I don't like the answers in terms of what they would say, but they would also select the law can only go so far it's changing hearts become confident families so once said this to me. You're all excited about us as a black brother. He said you're all excited about the conservative justices. The Trump has appointed throughout the country.

He said from my studies, these justices on average for the same sentence to the same type of person will give a longer sentence to a black person in a white person.

To me that's injustice. He said when I'm dealing with my local school districts and try to get things done and changed when this Republican power. They were even given the time a day was a Democrat. We can talk some my kids educated I'm untrue. I'm trying to help the inner cities.

Those are gospel issues also. So II hate abortion I hate homosexual activism. I differ with these things, but on the ground. It's much more practical for me to wrote Democrat on these other righteousness issues so again I differ because, in my view you cannot vote for candidate is pro-abortion is set out in the election. If you have to, but if the pro-abortion neutral on the sand just in principle, you can't but I can't say before God that someone chemical Democrat is a Christian. I couldn't do it. I can't see it but I can't judge them in cigarette. I follow Jesus futile Democratic question why why can't you challenge why I want what good because in their view that our votes for Republicans have not stopped abortion anymore than their votes for Democrats.

But on the ground they're saying on practical righteousness issues on life-and-death issues where they live. The Democrats are better than Republicans. That's their argument and therefore is God cares about justice and God cares about education and God cares about poverty. These role righteousness issues they feel voting for Democrats that now again I differ. I think Republican policy still work out better but it is if you can give me the chapter in the verse to justify your position. I would go to the doctor.

I just I don't see that I write it in a million adjustments in this I gave the opportunity for some of the call into differ with me as soon as I saw my screen somewhat different. I want to get right to it turns out your work together and in so many ways, but I was talking to this one brother African-American brother and he said to me why you think there are people in Congress who are preaching on Sunday morning against homosexuality against abortion but they are members of the Democratic Party and their service Democrats asserted my answer there hypocrites. I said that would be my answer.

He said the South case and give the reasons behind it. So I think the best thing William is to find someone that loves Jesus and that those Democrat and either challenge them and get them to change their views. I've been very II live. As you know, loudly, strongly challenge people claim to be pro-life and Joe Biden's and cannot see pro-life vote for Joe Biden say can be a follower of Jesus.

In vote Democrat it's too broad as much as you know we are in sync and some things with. But thanks for the public challenge on it. I appreciated William because Grace Bures will be right back principle of the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by going to 866-34-TRUTH your exam is Dr. Michael Brown. It is my great joy to take her calls do my best.

Solid biblical answers and wisdom for your questions, 866-34-TRUTH Michael Brown. Thanks for joining us on the line of fire. We go straight to the phone. Starting with Edward in Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Welcome to the line of fire from welcome my question."

I do appreciate your ministry him a messianic myself. Although I am a gentle person. The warm also. Medically, they warm the question is I wanted. I was comparing Roman 614, with the Romans three 3131 pulses, we uphold the law voted. Romans 614. He says we are not under the law, so, so, knowing that the Holy Spirit does not contradict himself. I was thinking that perhaps by law when he says we are not under the law might be the law is so perhaps pertaining to a certain sector sector. The Pharisees of his day know that's the appreciate your thinking on that. It's really not what he saying in Romans six and let's also bear in mind another woman with the Holy Spirit not contradict himself is highly unlikely that some of Paul's intellect in the same letter. We contradict himself so blatantly right so the first point Paul is making memories as law that can mean a system of law or commandments or commune laws and tour all the that the five books of Moses right can be used interchangeably with overlap between them. So what's his point in Romans three he saying how were justified by faith, and that this is actually what the Torah teaches so that rather than abolishing the Torah by faith we are upholding were single we learn justification by faith.

From Genesis 15, six that Abram believed the Lord in Wisconsin for righteousness.

So went when we teach justification by faith we teach what the Torah teaches and therefore we uphold the Torah and and then Paul has also argued a few verses earlier that that under the law. No one is justified rather everyone is found guilty and in need of a Savior. So by pointing to Jesus as the only Savior and by pointing to justification by faith rather than nullifying the law we are upholding it was a will. That's was therefore that's the whole purpose of it then. Roman six. He's talking about are dealing with sin and and the law could command us not to sin without empowering us that that the law did not have that element of supernatural grace God's car us which empowers us to do what he called us to do is is no poem says to run and work. The law commands but business. Neither feet nor hands, but better news the gospel brings it bids us fly and gives us wings to Romans 614 with Paul is saying is were not under the law. Once a system of justification to a something to lead us to the Messiah because we were ready come to the side. It's Galatians 3 and and certainly were not under the condemnation of the law now by the empowering of God's grace and spirit. We can keep the righteous commandments of laws Paul explains in Romans the chapter. These are now written on our hearts to love God, to love our neighbor etc. so that's how those things come together two different aspects and and two different two different viewpoints and two different emphases in terms of what he means by loss. You were right in wondering about the different nuances of law now must agree Torah in an Hebrew, but just came out at the Rolls-Royce appreciate the question sir very much.

Thank you very much for your answer right you got it 866-34-TRUTH let me just say that these are things like many of you what I thought about study considered for years as I did things fell into place.

I remember once when my trips to Israel may have been one of the early trips is not the first wall will praying at at the wall with outside school the Wailing Wall but within in Israel just called the Wallach hotel that will praying there and meditating on that passage about nothing under the law. Certain aspects of that struck me with with great clarity. All right we go to see Debra in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Welcome to live fire. I go ahead number one I how how you can find Alan between letting out any thinking. There are moral are not many.

You remember and that wonderfully elegant working to find documentary about our former president from who I want you fight that Islamic terrorism but was outstanding. The apathy of what we can expect from immigration policy. For example you that that one damn what was the Muslim bandit you refer to at.

During country. He went through 77 country so identified by the Obama administration that were dangerous in terms of potential terrorists seeking to to come in to America's refugees, and intercompany trump upheld that than but then used unwise rhetoric as if he was perfect prohibiting all Muslims from coming to America because there is never the case and that was never that was never policy but yes also let's let's sort this out very simply into two categories. It is the government's role to make sure that we have secure borders, safety, for example, the, the policeman in your in your county. His policeman policewoman there. Their primary thought is not how can I love my neighbor. But how can I protect this community from people I don't love their neighbors as whether there right in other words, if if they see someone trying to to rape a woman out. It's their goal is their role to stop that person from raping a woman as opposed to saying hey maybe in a bad day. Let's sit down, get a cup of coffee so we understand it so our government has to make sure that we have secure borders we have immigration policies.

We have millions and millions and millions, tens and tens of millions of immigrants in our country who have come as refugees from war had have have come from difficult situations and we have always done our best to open our doors to them, there's just a proper way that they come into the.

The system the it it it may be slow but you have to do it by the system.

Otherwise, the country can function it can only absorb so many people adequately and you have to be able to vet against terrorism. So right now is were doing our best to bring in refugees from Afghanistan. Different missions are working to do this even outside the United States. People have to be vetted properly because you don't want to let a terrorist into America, whose goal is to take American lives that's that's for the government to do for us as believers. Now we do our best to reach out to accommodate refugees to bring them into our communities. I'm the one church in Winston-Salem that led the way in in resettling Muslims into their area and they loved on these people's and some of the people started to come to church and becoming the face little was they were just there as Christians to set an example in the late 70s with the fall of of Saigon and in the boat people crisis is refugees were fleeing out of the South Vietnam minis and dying at sea are our pastor got up and said there is a crisis and working to take these people and because they need sponsors they can't come without a sponsor, you get a bed in your house if you got an empty couch. Let's take a minute so we did that for years. We had refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, living with us for a period of several years and they became part of her family, but all the sponsors so we did that part so the Christians should emphasize the compassion part. What can we do to help with her all refugees.

Indeed, what can we do the settlement, our communities, to reach out to be a blessing to show genuine Christian love. Let the government keep our borders secure and vet those were coming out. I think it's a simple management with ancient Israel.

You have many verses about being compassionate to the stranger reminding the Israelites that you were strangers in Egypt to at the same time they were called to slaughter their enemy's self of recording the one verse remember with the other person said so that's I think if we put everything is right perspective with the government does the church does, then we can also advocate to the government. Look, there's a class of refugees here trump want to put Christian refugees at the top of list because they were often the last to be treated and there were so discriminated against in the Muslim countries, they often couldn't get to the places for resettlement refugees and things like that so I believe he did the right thing and put in that higher up on on on the chain of or higher up on the opportunity list to come into the country so that to me is the way have looked at with the church do its job with the government do its job and and we can both express things in a righteous and compassionate way. I okay will have that out.

I have a great pound yes yes everyone I love them guessing we don't learn tomorrow right so that you things, there's the agenda and in their the people so you don't want to say I love the sinner and hate the sin, because what a gay personal here is you hate me as they would say this not what I do. This is who I am. So the way the Holy Spirit drop this in my heart. In early 2005 which, brought to clarity things I had been feeling for months leading up to that was reach out and resist reach out to the people with compassion resist the agenda with courage. I love using individual I care about you with your gay straight by trans overview identify your human being created an image of God gets fallen like the rest of us. Jesus said the same blood for you and care about you if your Hindu neighbor. I care about you, even I would share your faith if you're a guy living with his girlfriend on and care about you even even though I don't agree with your morals. If you're a gay couple and care about you even though I don't believe it's real marriage. So to love the people care for the people treat them with kindness with grace everywhere know how but I will resist the agenda of the activism and also the standards on that they may feel rejection and that sorry about it. But the love you resist the agenda will not move honey it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 6643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown for everyone listening and watching live in less than 30 minutes for 15 Eastern time. We will be on our YouTube channel its asked her to Brown ASKDR Brown for our weekly private exclusive Q&A chats you have to join us over on YouTube asked her to Brown on YouTube for 15 Eastern time and especially if you're unable to get through today we were able to get your call love to take your questions and chat form over on YouTube all right.

We go back to the phones with an anonymous caller from South Carolina.

Welcome to the line of fire. Dr. Brown letter talk to. I don't get to show very often so hope you have recently but I have been involved in church mine our life. I'm in my late 20 a little over more than five months ago.

I truly got Dave go and I gave my life to Jesus completely. Since then I have felt God had been leading me in the ministry and I have a great desire to share the gospel change life for him. I have talked with a pastor friend of mine and maybe one other person for advice on this because I've heard in the past. Growing up that in ministry are called to do it. It's not something you can do on your own and I struggle with this God leading me in this direction or this just in time fully involved in my entire life for him now it is just because I'm so involved in the word and all that is just me thinking that I should do this job pastor print out talk to about it as they will not itself listening to be in the ministry topically. It's something that God is probably telling you be doing but I would love your thoughts on if you have any yet. So this from a different angle.

How did you get from your teen years into your 20s. You lived right doing what you're doing and you lived and you got there okay. When you you planted the tree plant the seeds and then they grow in the probably warded the frozen tree just happens right. So the same way you want to think of ministry like some profession what you want to realize it's just the natural extension of who you are and God that all of us are involved in ministry one another for saved every one of us should be doing the work of ministry and one another. Some it's vocational you actually paid to do it because it's what you do full-time but every one of us should be doing the work of ministry. So in that sense. I've always been called to minister when I was first saved and shared the gospel with everyone I could in my high school in the first year I would say probably 40 different people came to church service with me that to hear the gospel and and every day I look for someone new to share the gospel with even was inside school outside school. I knocked on every door.

My neighborhood of 300 families to leave a tracker to share my testimony with someone I will know would study the Scripture. And as if I was gonna preach etc. so when I actually was called to preach and asked to preach at the age of 18 when a Savior and 1/2. I I've been living this out for all the months leading up to that when I was finally asked to teach full-time at a Bible school under a been teaching in church for years. So what I'd encourage you to do is keep doing what you're doing and being who you are. If God is calling you into vocational ministry. So this becomes what you do full-time as a pastor or Bible school teacher or a traveling speaker were missionary whatever that does.

So I'll just grow more and more and more and more it's it's almost like as a boy if he kept wearing the same shirt at a certain point, as you grew that shirt would burst because you just got bigger and started to grow to be a man. It's the same with this, that is you love the Lord keep spending time with him. Keep sharing the gospel find out all the church need someone to do this, I'll show up to do it.

All you need that all show up to do. It will all you need a ride there on your met you just keep serving throwing yourself in at a certain point. If God wants you to be a vocational ministry it's it's as if he says okay, I can have him spending time as a landscaper, computer programmers, I I need him doing this and then the doors open and and it's all you can do you really call. It's all you can do. You can't not do it because the fire burns inside of you.

So read and try to figure out. Keep doing what you're doing, being who you are and everything will fall into place with clarity and you'll know for sure that makes sense throughout. Perfect. Thank you so much and I deeply all right father we ask for your will to be done in this immense life as he draws close to.

May Jesus be his. All in all a man all right and see we got time for some more calls here. Let us go to Angela in Alexandria, Virginia. Welcome to the line of fire back about thinking so much for taking my call.

Welcome okay so how time, click here. My question pertaining to the Scripture. Hebrews 1317. I know you're familiar with at all recorded to you that when trying to ascertain it. How do you make proper application with that in regard to spiritual authority in your life you nap after our spiritual father and making health decision in regard to like that of the code that passing rate though there is no time for you being manipulative or anything, but there thing you know you can look at their lives. You know they would do anything to lead you astray purposely away everything taking a vaccine. And yes is set so he was 13, 17, is the strongest passage in the New Testament, telling us to obey your leaders and submit to their authority. After but the question is what kind of authority today have it spiritual authority to guide us in spiritual truth and God living. It's not authority to to tell you that that's you can't marry this person because they go to another church.

You know or ordered to tell you that you can't work this job because if you work this job you missed church service that that's that's not the authority to have realized that the authority is to to point you into the truth of the gospel and to to help nurture your soul. So if you are walking away from God and walking to willful sin that they're there to warn you into to help you back on the right path. So yes it does say immediately afterwards it to consider that the lives and look at the outcome of the laws and how they live against the not moral conduct. So they can say look, we have researched this and we know you have questions and we got the vaccine were recommending that you do it, but all that is is a recommendation that they cannot. They have no spiritual authority. The fact that your pastor does not make him any more qualified than anyone else. It specifically the reason why I am not telling anyone what to do or not to do because I'm not qualified and I know a lot of people look to me just like on the show. Call again for counsel right so my counsel is due to research.

Ask God for wisdom and make an informed decision. As for my own choice. That's my own personal choice because I want to influence anyone. Either way, because I don't have the right to not even out of authority. I I am not a specialist in this the most brilliant minds that I know on both sides of this and and differ each way. By all means if I knew for a fact that the vaccine was safe long term and save lives.

I get it every week.

If I had to wear a mask the rest of my life if I knew it would save people's lives and whatever the laws are all all comply with in terms of travel, wearing a mask and things like that. On the other hand, if if I've concerns that the vaccine may not be safe for their complications because of it, or other ramifications and the last thing I do is recommended so your local church has no authority to tell you what to do there but they can say hey if you find this reliable, trustworthy people. This is our recommendation with Hebrews 1317 does not apply. It does not apply there. God is not given them authority over your medical decisions in this regard, so hopefully that helps in Angela. I do appreciate you calling very much so much. All right, Tillich Blake, in New Brunswick, Canada. We've just got a minute and 1/2 if you can dive in quickly go ahead. Her your teaching your argument. I'm feeling amazing. I really want to recommended but alas teaching not done by you, really throws me. There's parts that contradict what you say effective if you have symptoms are not healed by each of the opposite to just post a clerk booklet. Quick question, can help me here sure that series. The Israel's divine healer on the Lord usually goes back to the late 80s. If I remember okay.

Who does the last session.

I don't remember you did every one of them and then someone will closer toward fake theology because the last one and that you recently got that series yet that was opulent. Okay I will thank you Blake for alerting me to that because obviously I would have certain differences with some since I have to figure out. I don't remember that specifically which is interesting that you raise that so let let me check out here so here's the sure thing I said we had everything I said the series back in the 80s, which is why still put out my theology believes having changed on healing. But if there is a last message from someone else, then let me relisten to that and and check because I don't think we bill it like that and this is audio it's easier easy enough for us to make an adjustment. So anyway Blake, thank you for the call. We regularly review all material terms of quality space to the older series that we taught to make sure the quality is still good.

So thank you for the call. I can for the question and we will check into this. Everyone else, 15 minutes from now.

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